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Ticats make
Alouettes eat
their words
Oh-so-condent Montreal
wont be headed to Cup
nale against Calgary after
all that honour goes to
Hamilton underdogs PAGE 22

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Matt Czuchry says charges

against his character have
strained him as well PAGE 16

Zoo struggling
despite pandas
Cold and competition.
Toronto Zoo has lost
300K visitors so far
this year, about $8.3
million in revenue
Despite the much-anticipated
arrival of pandas, the Toronto
Zoos revenues dropped $8.3
million from last year.
As of October this year, the
zoo had nearly 300,000 fewer
visitors.
The zoo took three major
hits late last year: three star
elephants departed for California in October following
a bitter battle over their fate;
Ripleys opened its doors in
a prime location in October;
and a brutal December kept
visitors away.
By the end of this year, the
zoo expects its net expenditures to be over budget by
$368,000. But using a reserve
fund bolstered by a profitable

Better days

The zoo had one of its best

nancial years in 2013,
which saw visitors climb to
1.4 million and revenues at
$36.8 million.

Lonely days at the zoo for Er Shun.

COLIN MCCONNELL/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

2013, the zoo says it can mitigate any remaining shortfalls.

The Toronto Zoo has
performed quite well considering the fact that the first
new major attraction in over
20 years opened late 2013
and, due to its nature, was in
direct competition with the
Toronto Zoo, wrote the zoos
chief operating officer, Robin
Hale, in a report to be tabled

at an upcoming board meeting.

The drop in attendance
was also blamed on an overall
decrease in leisure spending,
according to several surveys.
This summer, Toronto
Zoos city board chair, Joe Torzsok, said he was still optimistic numbers could rebound
after the zoo welcomed giant
pandas Er Shun and Dao Mao
midway through 2013.
There was also the welcome arrival of baby Humphrey, the polar bear cub who
went on display in February.
But attendance still didnt
approach last years record.

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TORONTO

Streetcar named desire

Why do people have
sex on public transit?
An expert says its all in
the mind

NEWS

MIKE
DONACHIE

mike.donachie@metronews.ca

Nobody knows the real reason behind some of weirdest

things that happen on Toronto transit.
But one expert in the city
has suggested the brains of
those involved in last weeks
streetcar sex incident might
be to blame.
Underdeveloped prefrontal lobes could be the cause,
leaving people lacking inhibitions, said Dr. David Wiesenthal of York University. But,
he noted, alcohol or drugs are
more likely.
Details are scarce in the
aftermath of the downtown
incident, although there have
been no shortage of jokes
about it on social media. Toronto Transit Commission
spokesman Brad Ross nicknamed it the streetcar named
desire.
Heres what we know. At
about 5:30 p.m. Thursday,
someone on the packed 504
King streetcar complained
about fellow passengers, ages
still unknown, engaging in
sexual activity.
Reports vary, but at least
two people were said to be
involved. Police investigators said there were three, a
woman and two men, but the
TTC has said no details of the
incident can be independently
confirmed.
The vehicle was stopped
and the police were called,
causing delays for people on
the streetcar involved, and another one trapped behind it.

A TTC streetcar heads east on King Street in this October 2014 le photo. BERNARD WEIL/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Sexual behaviour on TTC

Quoted

The message is: Please take it elsewhere.

Brad Ross, spokesman for Toronto Transit Commission

But, if there was streetcar

sex, the amorous perpetrators
had fled by the time the cops
arrived.
The prefrontal lobes Wiesenthal mentioned are the
part of the brain that reach
maturity in the mid-to-late
20s. They deteriorate in older
people, he added, which explains why the elderly can
sometimes make callous or
unexpected remarks.
But, he said, public displays
of affection are rare in transit
systems because people exercise the same kind of selfcontrol they do on the street.

Interestingly, people arent

as good at controlling themselves in cars, Wiesenthal
said.
He described a U.S. survey
of university students, asking
them about sexual behaviour
in cars. About a third of male
respondents said they had received oral sex in a car, and 10
per cent of women said theyd
engaged in sexual behaviour
in a car that was moving.
Often remote and rural
areas were involved, however.
Generally, I think people
tend to view their own
vehicles as one of the few

TTC spokesman Brad Ross

said sexual behaviour on
the system is rare, despite
the well-publicized incident
at Spadina station in 2011,
in which a man and woman
were charged after having
sex on the platform and in
a subway car.

places in the modern environment where they have privacy, meaning complete control over temperature, music,
etc., Wiesenthal said. Why
they would engage in this on
a streetcar, though, is puzzling. I wonder whether they
had some spur-of-the-moment
thing.

The message is: Please

take it elsewhere, Ross said,
adding that TTC staff will call
the police if people break any
laws, sexually or otherwise.
Theres no live investigation by TTC in the Thursday
case, he said, and a lack of
criminal charges means the
video footage on the streetcar
wont be downloaded.
But, theres no doubt,
people do stupid things on
transit, Ross added.
Aside from criminal activity like thefts and assaults,
that includes taking shortcuts
across the tracks when it isnt
safe, and sneaking into tunnels to relieve themselves,
risking that dangerous third
rail that could cause electrocution.
Thats got to hurt.

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Crime

Police on hunt for

shoe fetishist
Police are looking for a
man with an apparent shoe
fetish after he removed a
womans boot, peeled off
her sock and licked her foot
without her consent.
York Region Police say
theyre investigating two
separate incidents involving a well-dressed man who
appears to be in his 30s.
They say in the first

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NEWS

incident, which took place

on Wednesday, a man
entered a tanning salon in
Richmond Hill, smelled a
womans shoe and then
fled with it.
The next day, police say
the man went to another
tanning salon and began
asking a woman questions
about her boots. Police say
the man then allegedly
grabbed the womens leg,
removed her boot and sock
and licked her foot before
fleeing with the boot and
sock. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Health

Province to restrict
e-cigarette use,
says report
Hamilton TV station CHCH
is reporting the Ontario
government will move
to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes, including banning their sale to
minors.
Associate Health Minister Dipika Damerla is to
make the announcement at

a news conference Monday

morning.
The station reports the
use of e-cigarettes will be
banned wherever smoking
is already prohibited.
Cigarette smoking
is currently banned in
enclosed public places and
all enclosed workplaces
restrictions that will be expanded Jan. 1 to include all
restaurant and bar patios
as well as at playgrounds
and publicly owned sports
fields.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Esoteric collection

Rare jade to be
auctioned
A rare collection of ancient
Chinese jade pieces, some
dating back 6,000 years,
will be up for grabs in
Toronto on Tuesday and are
expected to well exceed
their collective pre-sale
estimate of $500,000, says
A.H. Wilkens Auctions &
Appraisals.
We really dont see
pieces of this nature come

up very often any longer,

said Andrea Zeifman, COO
and senior appraiser at A.H.
Wilkens, noting such a collection is usually held in a
museum.
Its a pretty esoteric collection because its so old.
The nearly 200-piece
collection comes from the
estate of the late Irving
Langleb, a Brooklyn-born
linguistics scholar who
moved to Japan after
working in Asia during the
Second World War.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

An up-and-coming
CEO with a heart
Abi Smithson.
10-year-old sandalmaker looking to ll
rst order from Aldo
GILBERT
NGABO

gilbert.ngabo@metronews.ca

At just 10 years old, Abi

Smithson is CEO of her own
company, the Love Sandal
or Made by Abi Inc.
The young Mississauga
entrepreneur
recently
pitched her idea in a bid to
get funding for Next Gen
Den, the youth version of
CBCs Dragons Den. The
show will air in January.
Shes also started a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo in an effort to gather

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some $15,000 by early December.

This would help her fill
the first order of Love Sandals with Aldo and set up distribution. The campaign has
raised just more than $5,000,
about 30 per cent of the final
target.
Each of Abis sandals has
an open-faced heart cut in
the top or on the side. Her
inspiration, which came dur-

ing a Girls Learning Code

Inventors Camp in Toronto,
was simple.
I noticed my mom had
ugly tan lines on top of her
foot and thought, What if
the tan line was a heart?
she said.
Since starting Love Sandal, Smithsons been learning new things that have
helped her grow as a person and an entrepreneur.
Shes also thinking about an
expansion into clothing and
jewelry.
Professional
designers
from Aldo helped her sketch
two types of sandals.
First there are the Hippy
Chicks, which have a squishy
cork base and are meant to
be used for walking and hiking. Then there are the Beach
Bums, flat sandals with soft
straps and a foam base. They

can be worn while walking

on the beach.
The Hippy Chicks go for
$49.99, while the Beach
Bums cost $29.99.
Abi is also driven by a passion to help. She devotes 10
per cent of net proceeds to
the SickKids Foundation.
I just want to help kids
feel better, she said.
She also gets support from
Ryerson Universitys Digital
Media Zone, which helps her
access advisers and mentors.
But no amount of support
and constructive criticism
can equal that given by her
parents.
We want her to succeed
and serve as an example to
other children, said mom
Julie Smithson, insisting
everything her daughter
does has to be balanced with
schoolwork.

Mississaugas Abi Smithson is breaking into the business world at the ripe
young age of 10. DAVID VAN DYKE/METRO

T.O. artist helps Marvel revive Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck rst appeared in the Marvel universe in 1973.

TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Marvel is reviving a crass,

drink-swilling duck from the
70s with the help of a Toronto artist.
The entertainment Goliath will be launching a new
comic-book series based on
Howard the Duck an illtempered, satirical character
from another planet who has
a penchant for cigars and is
prone to adventure. The character was teased in a postcredits sequence from the
recent blockbuster Guardians
of the Galaxy, but is still best
known from a failed 1980s
screen adaptation.
The forthcoming comic
series, featuring Howard as
a private investigator, will be

Quoted

There is certainly a lot

of pressure with taking over a book that
was beloved by a lot of
people.
Illustrator Steve Murray

written by Steve Murray, a Torontonian and former National Post illustrator who goes by
the name Chip Zdarsky, along
with American comic artist
Joe Quinones.
Murray told Torstar News
Service he wants the series to
be funny, but also in keeping

with the characters famous

past.
Hopefully it will live up
to what has come before,
Murray said. There is certainly a lot of pressure with
taking over a book that was
beloved by a lot of people.
He said his interest in
Howard the Duck was first
sparked during visits to his
weird Uncle Fred, who had
a large comic collection.
Whenever I went to his
house, those were the ones
I would read because they
were weird and adult in tone
so they felt illicit, he said.
In Grade 6, I quite enjoyed
the Howard the Duck movie
even though I now recognize

that it is terrible.
Murray first got involved
with Marvel after he released
an Image Comics series called
Sex Criminals, which was
nominated this year for an
Eisner Award. The series also
caught the eye of a Marvel
editor, who enlisted Murray
to put together some humorous, one-off covers for the
company before Marvel asked
if he had any ideas for Howard the Duck.
Since then, Murray has
written Howards first script
and Quinones has begun
drafting artwork to accompany it. Beyond that, the pair
has only plotted out the first
few issues. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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THE LABOUR MOVEMENT

IS MINIMUM
WAGE ENOUGH
TO LIVE ON ?
More than a million people across Canada worked
for minimum wage last year, many of them working
in full-time jobs. For most, its not enough to get by.
Lets call her Sara. Sara is a single mom,
who works full time for minimum wage in
Toronto. After paying for groceries, rent,
and child care for her two kids, she has $5
left at the end of the week. Sara is just one
of many Canadians who work hard every
day, but struggle to support their families.
Full-time minimum wage workers in Ontario live 16% below the poverty line, and
those numbers are echoed across the country. According to the most recent report
from Food Banks Canada, 12% of people
using food banks in Canada work full
time. Since 2000, the number of Canadians
working for minimum wage has doubled.

The labour movement has always

worked for fair wages for everyone after
all, it was the unions that secured a minimum wage in the first place for working Canadians, along with decent hours
and safer workplaces. More recently, the
labour movement has been one of the most
outspoken voices calling for an increase in
minimum wage across the country.

THE STATS SUPPORTING

THE NEED FOR
BETTER WAGES ARE
COMPELLING :

Nearly 1 million
workers in Canada
need more than one job
just to make ends meet.

GOOD JOBS SUMMIT

This fall, the labour movement
organized the Good Jobs Summit,
bringing together students, workers,
researchers, policy-makers,
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projects to address issues of equity,
poverty reduction, environmental
sustainability and local economic
development.
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More than three

quarters of all new
jobs in the last 5
years in Canada fall
into the precarious
or underemployed
categories.
More than 2 million
Canadians are in
temporary jobs, the
highest on record.

The debate isnt limited to increasing the

minimum wage either: the labour
movement has been campaigning hard for
living wage policies across the country.
A living wage is based on your standard of
living rather than financial income in
short, its the amount a family needs to
earn to afford basic everyday expenses.
These efforts have succeeded in some
communities: for one, in Westminster,
British Columbia, a living wage policy was
passed in 2010. That means that everyone
who works for the municipality, or who
works for companies contracted by the
city, can afford a decent life.
It makes sense for municipal
governments to support good local jobs.
Household spending drives 54 % of Canadas
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), so when
people have good jobs and decent wages,
they can contribute more to our economy.
Putting money back into our communities
benefits everyone consumers and
businesses.
Even so, the labour movement had to
work hard to finally convince the City of
Toronto to purchase its new subway cars
from Bombardier, which has a plant in the
same province, instead of purchasing them
from a company whose operations are

based in Europe. That decision resulted in

500 good jobs for Thunder Bay.
Helping employers and employees find
innovative solutions to the job crisis in
todays marketplace is also critical. The
labour movement has supported a number
of measures to address this: for instance,
unions secured the implementation of
a third shift at auto plants, which has
reduced demand for overtime hours. In
the event of a slow-down in production,
unions have also negotiated worksharing agreements that split the work
hours between employees rather than
eliminating jobs. And when GE Canada
added 1,000 robots to its plant in Quebec,
the union helped employees being
replaced by the machines get the training
they needed to qualify for skilled jobs
elsewhere.
All Canadians deserve a good job a job
that is meaningful, safe and sustainable,
and that allows us to support a good
quality of life for our families and
ourselves.
To learn more about how the labour
movement is helping to protect and
create good jobs across Canada, go to
fairnessworks.ca.

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CANADA

CFB Petawawa. Soldier

was a natural leader
It was the call no mother
wants to hear.
Anna Loveman received
word Friday afternoon that her
27-year-old son, Kyle Sinclair,
who was serving in the Canadian army at CFB Petawawa,
had been taken to hospital injured.
Sinclair died not long after
from an injury, after what the
military has so far called an
unfortunate incident.
The Globe and Mail reported Sunday that Sinclair
suffered traumatic head injuries when a seat malfunctioned
while he was changing the oil
in a Coyote patrol vehicle, but
the Department of National
Defence could not confirm this
to Torstar News Service Sunday
night.
Sinclair was found alive but
unconscious and was rushed
to Pembroke General Hospital,
where he was resuscitated. He
was transferred in critical condition to Ottawa Civic Hospital
on Friday evening and died before midnight.
Sinclair passed away surrounded by family and friends
moments before midnight on
the day of the incident, said
Lt.-Gen. Marquis Hainse, commander of the Canadian Army,

Quoted

On behalf of all Canadians, Laureen and I

oer our deepest condolences to the family,
friends and colleagues of
Craftsman Kyle Sinclair.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper

in a statement.
Sinclair, who held the rank
of craftsman, was on a training
program with the Royal Canadian Dragoons at the time of
the accident, according to the
Defence Department. His decision to join the armed forces in
2012 kind of came out of the
blue, Loveman recalled.
Loveman believes it was her
sons desire to protect others
that led him to the Canadian
Forces.
According to a statement
from Lt.-Col. Carla Harding, his
commanding officer in the 2nd
Service Batallion, Sinclair had
an aptitude for the trades. This
technical competence, paired
with his maturity, made him
a natural leader amongst his
peers, Harding said.
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

$200M. Military mental

health to get more funds
The federal government has
announced $200 million over
six years to support mental health needs of military
members, veterans and their
families.
The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces also
announced Sunday that an
additional $16.7 million in
ongoing funds will be available to support forces members, veterans, and their families.
Veterans Affairs Minister
11-year-old in custody

More arrests at
pipeline protest
At least a dozen protesters,
including an 11-year-old girl,
were taken into custody
Sunday on a mountain near
Vancouver as a demonstrations continued against
a controversial pipeline
project.
Dozens have been arrested since Thursday, when
the RCMP began enforcing
a court injunction ordering
protesters to clear a pair
of work sites on Burnaby
Mountain, where Kinder

Julian Fantino told a news

conference in Halifax that
some of the money will fund
completely digitizing the
health records of all serving
personnel, investing in brain
imaging technology and extending access to Military
Family Resource Centres.
We will continue to focus
on reducing the administration burden on veterans and
their families while improving
frontline services and medical
support, he said at HMC Dockyard. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Morgan is conducting drilling and survey work related
to the proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain
pipeline.
The 11-year-old girl and
her mother crossed a police
line after announcing their
plan to do so to supporters.
Others were arrested after
making similar pronouncements and proceeding past
RCMP officers.
Anti-pipeline activists
set up an encampment
on Burnaby Mountain in
September in an attempt to
block Kinder Morgan crews
from accessing the area.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Maritime lobster levy faces more delays

Fishing boats loaded with lobster traps head from the harbour in West Dover, Nova Scotia on Saturday. A promise from the three Maritime provinces to have
a levy in place before the end of the year to support a marketing strategy for the regions embattled, $1-billion lobster industry is facing more delays. The levy,
rst proposed in a report over a year ago, would see lobster shermen and the onshore side of the industry such as processors each pay one cent per pound of
lobster caught to cover the cost of advertising campaigns and other strategies to promote their product, which has been plagued by slumping prices in recent
years. The levy would cost the industry about $2.5 million annually, the Maritime lobster panel report said.
PHOTO: ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS; STORY: THE CANADIAN PRESS

Majority of Canadians
back Iraq mission: Poll
Forum Research
Poll. 66 per cent of
voters agree with the
Canadian eort to
combat ISIL militants
About two-thirds of Canadians
support the mission in Iraq
and consider the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) a
threat to Canada that must be
confronted overseas, a new poll
says.
Days after Canadas third
bombing mission destroyed a
warehouse and training ground
in northern Iraq, a Forum Research poll found 66 per cent of
voters agree with the Canadian
effort to combat ISIL. Our con-

tribution to this war effort includes bombing missions by six

CF-18 fighter jets.
The survey found that 30
per cent do not agree with the
mission a position mirrored
by 40 per cent of voters aged
18-34, and 37 per cent of those
polled in Quebec.
The poll also discovered
more Canadians agree that ISIL
poses a direct threat to Canada
today (67 per cent) than did in
a September poll (56 per cent).
About two thirds of voters support the claim that ISIL
must be combatted in Iraq to
stop the group from spreading
into Canada. A strong majority of Canadians 70 per cent
believe the country needs
tougher anti-terrorism laws.
Of those polled, 72 per cent

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agree that Canadians deemed

high risk,who might travel
abroad to participate in jihadist
movements, should have their
passports revoked. And 86 per
cent agree that such individuals
should not be allowed back into
Canada once they have left.
Forum put Ben Franklins
famous adage to voters: Those
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security deserve neither freedom nor security. Less than

half 45 per cent agree
with Franklin, a quarter do not
and just under one-third have
no opinion on the statement.
Forum said its results are accurate plus or minus three percentage points, 19 times out of
20. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE WITH FILES
FROM THE CANADIAN PRESS

Unused funding for veterans not lost: Fantino

Veterans Aairs Minister Julian

Fantino THE CANADIAN PRESS

Veterans Affairs Minister Julian

Fantino said Sunday the departments $1.1 billion dollars
in unused funding over seven
years is not lost money.
The department was unable to spend more than $1.1
billion of its budget over seven
years, and like other departments that are unable to spend
their appropriation within the
budget year, Veterans Affairs

was required to return its unspent funds to the treasury.

But Fantino told a news
conference in Halifax that the
funding is recycled back into
programs for veterans.
That has taken on a life
of its own. Its totally false in
the context that its been portrayed, said Fantino of the
lapsed funding at a news conference announcing $200 mil-

lion over six years to support

mental health needs of military
members.
Earlier this week, veterans
groups were demanding a
detailed accounting of which
programs had lapsed funding
and why. They also accused
Ottawa of using it as a deliberate strategy to balance the
federal budget.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Ferguson and the St. Louis region are on edge in anticipation of the announcement by a grand jury whether to
criminally charge ocer Darren Wilson in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown. DAVID GOLDMAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ferguson awaits
grand jury word
Residents on edge.
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Anxiety and speculation
mounted Sunday in the St.
Louis suburb of Ferguson as
residents awaited a decision
by a grand jury on whether
to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of
an unarmed black 18-yearold.
More than 3-1/2 months
have passed since police Officer Darren Wilson killed
Michael Brown after a confrontation in the middle of a
28 dead

Kenyan deputy
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Kenyas deputy president
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including by raiding
mosques.
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street in Ferguson. The shooting triggered riots and looting, and police responded
with armoured vehicles and
tear gas.
The incident reignited
debate over how police deal
with young black men, and
drew attention to racial tensions simmering in U.S. communities four decades after
the civil rights movement of
the 1960s.
Two-thirds of Fergusons
residents are black but the
police force is almost entirely white.
Many in the St. Louis area
thought a grand jury decision on whether to charge
Wilson with a crime would
be announced Sunday, based

partly on a stepped-up police

presence in the preceding
days, including the setting
up of barricades around the
justice centre where the
panel was meeting.
The grand jurors met Friday but apparently didnt
reach a decision, and they
were widely expected to reconvene on Monday, though
there was no official confirmation of that.
Grand juries, composed of
regular citizens, determine
only whether probable cause
exists to indict a suspect. If
the jury indicts Wilson, a
separate trial will be held to
decide whether to convict or
acquit him.
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Iran. Muslim clerics meet

to counter extremists
Shiite and Sunni clerics from
about 80 countries are gathering in Irans holy city of Qom
to develop a strategy to combat extremists including the
Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL), which has captured large parts of Iraq and
Syria.
Ayatollah Nasser Makarem
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formed to position Islam
against Islam.

Participants sit in an anti-extremism

conference on Sunday in the city of
Qom, 125 kilometres south of Irans
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Anti-corruption rules may hurt economy

New federal rules that
threaten to ban companies
convicted of crimes from
public contracts could kill
jobs and hurt the Canadian
economy, warns a study
conducted for a powerful
business group.
The report lists the potential consequences of
Ottawas so-called integrity framework, a measure
strengthened last spring
to disqualify would-be sup-

pliers busted in Canada or

abroad for offences such
as fraud, bribery and extortion.
The companies would
face a 10-year ban, or debarment, from vying for
the often-lucrative procurement deals offered through
the governments primary
contracting
department:
Public Works.
But such bans would
not only inflict damage on

suspended firms, they also

risk far-reaching harm on
Canadas economy, says the
study, commissioned by the
Canadian Council of Chief
Executives.
The report was one of
two research documents
the council forwarded to
Public Works last week. The
department says its officials
are reviewing both reports.
Debarment imposes a
direct cost on the debarred

firms, but also on innocent parties and society

at large, says the report,
which explores the potential economic effects of the
framework.
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possible scenarios, concluding that annual sales for a
typical disqualified company would drop by $351
million and force it to fire
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14

VOICES

UBER RESERVATIONS

While Uber has opened up a level of service previously unimaginable with traditional cab companies, the companys portrait
of itself as a cool-cat upstart that The Man wants to squelch isnt in line with reality
MATT
ELLIOT

toronto@metronews.ca

Ive never had great luck with Toronto cabs.

Way too often, Ive found myself standing
past midnight on a bitterly cold street corner,
trying to find a cab driver who will gladly accept
a debit or credit card who wont tell me his
machine is broken.
As a result, Ive become a big fan of apps
that allow customers to both hail a cab and
pay the fare with their smartphone. Up until
they ceased operations earlier this month, I
was an avid user of Hailo. Ive since switched
to Uber, despite some concerns about the
companys reputation.
I like the service. But even as an Uber user, I

wont rush to the companys defence following

news that the City of Toronto is seeking a legal
injunction that would force Uber to cease operations.
Uber seems to want to paint this conflict as a
simple case of stodgy government bureaucrats
clamping down on a popular, modern service.
Its website accuses the city and the taxi industry of trying to stifle competition and protect their monopoly on Torontos streets. But
many of the citys concerns seem valid.
Transportation staff are worried that Uber
vehicles arent always subject to the same driver
training, inspections and insurance as the rest
of the industry. And theyre concerned about
Uber employing surge pricing that could put
the price of rides above set fare regulations.
In fact, point to a random section of the citys

taxi bylaws and odds are Uber is breaking them.

The company tries to dispute this by calling itself a ride-share company instead of a taxi service, but that fig leaf isnt very convincing.
Ignoring this conflict cant be an option. The
city didnt adopt a set of rules and regulations
for the taxi industry just for the fun of it. And it
plainly would be unfair to existing cab drivers
and dispatch companies to force them to comply with regulations while Uber gets to do whatever it wants. But simply running Uber out of
town isnt much of a solution, either. Theres
clearly a value to the kind of service its offering.
If there wasnt, people wouldnt use it.
This leaves the city with two paths forward.
The first is to tear down the regulations and
make for a more competitive and less regulated
market. The second is to leave most of their

Your City

Uber vs. city suits

Uber seems to want to paint this conict as a simple case of stodgy government bureaucrats clamping down on a
popular, modern service.
regulations in place and instead, clearly define
what kind of service Uber and its competitors
can offer within the context of city bylaws.
Neither is a simple solution, but then this
isnt a simple problem. As much as I loathe the
idea of returning to nights of cold street corners
and cab drivers demanding cash only, city hall
cant ignore that Uber breaks the rules just because people like it.

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SCENE

Teen lovers murder mystery

captivates the world by podcast
We were not at all
expecting so many
people listening and
writing about the show.
And its international.
Julie Snyder, senior producer of Serial

For 15 years, nobody outside

Maryland cared much about
the murder of a South Koreanborn high school teen, supposedly at the hands of her exboyfriend, the son of Pakistani
immigrants.
Now, it seems, everyone
does. The perplexing tale of
Hae Min Lee and Adnan Syed is
at the heart of Serial, an hourlong weekly podcast thats become an unlikely global Internet phenomenon.
Fans speak of being addicted and obsessed with the
program. Those who caught
the bug early cant wait for
Thursdays, when fresh installments drop. Latecomers binge
on past episodes.
Its been downloaded more
than five million times from
Apples iTunes store, where
its a Top 10 hit in the United
States, Canada, Britain, Australia, India, South Africa and
Germany. It can also be heard
on the shows website at serialpodcast.org.
Between episodes, chatter
rages on social media. Reddit
hosts an exhaustive Serial discussion board. Bloggers speculate whos telling the truth -
and who might not be.
Serial is a spinoff from This
American Life, a long-running
U.S. public radio series thats
famous for its quirky topics and
laid-back storytelling style.

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Its runaway success as a

podcast, no less has taken its
creators by surprise.
We kind of expected to be
in the sleepier realms of the
podcast world, says senior producer Julie Snyder. We were
hoping for good numbers. But
we were not at all expecting so

many people listening and writing about the show, and having
a lot of interest about the show.
And its international. We
didnt plan for that at all.
Serial comes across as part
investigative journalism, part
police procedural, part soap
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Hae and Adnan - everyone
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name by narrator and journalist Sarah Koenig are high
school sweethearts who keep
their love a secret from their
conservative immigrant fam-

ilies. In the opening episodes,

both come across as bright allAmerican teenagers popular,
getting good grades, holding
down part-time jobs, looking
forward to prom night.
But when romance turns to
breakup, Adnan, overcome by
anger, strangles Hae and, with
a pal, buries her in a shallow
grave, where a passerby finds
her three weeks later.
At least, thats the version
prosecutors gave jurors at a
six-week trial that ended with
Adnan getting a life sentence in
a Maryland penitentiary, where
he remains at the age of 32.
Koenig revisits the case in
forensic detail interviewing
witnesses who sometimes contradict themselves, pursuing
neglected leads, chatting regularly by phone with the imprisoned Adnan, who maintains he
is innocent.
Its unclear whether Serial
might turn up fresh material to
compel judicial authorities to
reopen the case but Snyder
says thats not the point.
Weve said from the beginning that we dont know where
its going to end, she added.
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New facts in judgment of Chris McCandless

Books. Hikers sister
hopes revelations
about their upbringing
will help explain his
fatal Alaskan odyssey

Quoted

I just want people

to have the facts. If it
doesnt change their
opinion about Chris,
thats OK.

JENNIFER
PRITTIE

Carine McCandless, on the revelations in

her memoir The Wild Truth

jennifer.prittie@metronews.ca

Its hard to find someone who

doesnt have an opinion about
Chris McCandless. You likely
already know the bare bones
of his story: Young hiker walks
into the Alaskan wilderness
with a .22-calibre rifle and a
10-pound bag of rice, determined to live off the land, test
his own mettle and come to
grips with some weighty questions. Several months later,
his emaciated body is found
by hunters in an abandoned
bus, along with a diary of his
increasingly futile efforts to
survive.
What would drive anyone
to take such a risk? Author Jon
Krakauer did his best to answer
that in a high-profile article for
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top student and athlete from
a well-off Washington, D.C.area family who was poised for
success, but instead chose to
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graduating from university, he
had donated his savings to charity, burned his cash and set out

on the road. His family didnt

hear from him again.
The book was notably
even-handed, but it provoked
a staggeringly wide range of
interpretation. To this day, McCandless debates still run at
fever pitch online. As Krakauer
writes in the introduction to
The Wild Truth, a new memoir by Chriss younger sister
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explicit facts, they concluded
that he was merely self-absorbed, unforgivably cruel to
his parents, mentally ill, suicidal and/or witless.
The piece of the story that
was missing, Carine now explains, is that she and Chris
grew up in a home rife with domestic and emotional abuse, all
while being forced by their parents to maintain the facade of
a harmonious Christian family.
I would definitely say that the

psychological things that we

went through were more devastating than the physical things,
she says in an interview. Much
more so. Those are the things
that drove Chris out.
She says she told Krakauer
all this while he was researching his book, so he would better understand her brother,
but made him promise to keep
the details out of print. I really
wanted to spare my parents,
because I really felt that they
would learn obviously, I
expected them to learn from
Chriss death, because I couldnt

imagine how they could not.

They didnt learn, by her account, and instead maintained
their position that the family
life had been fine one reason that Carine became more
open about their upbringing
over the years, she says. By the
time of the 2007 film adaptation by Sean Penn, she, too,
had essentially cut off contact
with her parents. But her main
motivation in going public has
to do with the students shes
met since Into the Wild was
published. The book is required
reading at many U.S. schools,
and in going to speak at those
schools, she found that students
and teachers reacted differently
when they knew the backstory.
She realized being open about
the abuse was helping others in
the same situation.
Given that, maybe its petty
to wonder whether the new revelations will change the shape
of the battle over Chriss legacy.
I just want people to have the
facts. If it doesnt change their
opinion about Chris, thats OK,
she says. The greatest inspiration and the greatest lessons
come from truth, so I want that
truth to be out there.

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METRO DISH
OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES
The Word

Gwyneth gives
Martha a taste
of her own recipe
as war heats up

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The naked truth: Natalie

wants GOTs nudity
imbalance to be righted
The HBO hit Game of Thrones
isnt known for modesty
when it comes to nude
scenes, but at least one of the
shows stars thinks theres
some imbalance in exactly
what flesh is on display.
Simply put, Natalie
Dormer wants to see more
man meat next season. Well,
during the first season, (costars) Alfie (Allen), Richard

(Madden) and several of the

men got naked although
not all the way, Dormer, who
also stars in the new Hunger
Games movie, tells The Daily
Beast.
I think Thrones has been
better than your average
show with the equality, but
they could definitely ramp
it up. Absolutely. Should we
start a petition or something?

Bette Midler

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Metro in Hollywood

In possibly the most stuffy,

Hamptons-bred move yet,
Gwyneth Paltrow and Martha Stewart have apparently
decided theyre going to play
out their ongoing feud with
the WASP-iest weapon of all:
clever recipes.
Last month, Stewart presented a selection of holiday
pies in her magazine with
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Paltrows awkward divorce

announcement.
So Paltrows camp has
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The folks at Goop know
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But hey, at least if they
keep fighting, well keep getting delicious dessert recipes.

Midler says specialness

has rubbed away from the
gay community
Gay community: Bette Midler
loves you, but youre bringing
her down. Youre just not interesting enough anymore.
The extreme characters
you used to see in the Village
in the old days, you just dont
see them anymore, Midler
tells the Advocate. I really do
miss them, because there was a
feeling I used to get that people

were expressing themselves

in the most elaborate of ways.
Now the (gay community) has
kind of gone mainstream. Its
sort of ordinary now, and a
little bit of the specialness has
rubbed away. Man, after Zachary Quintos recent comments
in Out, this is a great month
for criticizing the gay community as a whole, isnt it?

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Dont be a drifter when it

comes to life and your debt
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WORK & EDUCATION

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I just called to say I love my co-worker

to make it less so. This isnt
your ticket to all-day PDA
its an opportunity to
normalize your situation.
So long as you keep things
clean, you shouldnt have to
keep it to yourselves.

OFFICE SPACE

Eleni Deacon
life@metronews.ca

Dear Metro,
Ive been dating one of
my co-workers on the
down-low for about three
months, and were getting sick of keeping things
secret. Our relationship is
stable and we both want to
keep our behaviour superprofessional at work. Is it
a big deal if we let people
know were together?

Dear Metro,
Ive been working at a new
company for about three
weeks, and Im nding the
atmosphere around the ofce really quiet. Our space
is open-concept, but its
so silent that I sometimes
feel nervous to talk. I dont
want to be disruptive or
goof o all day but some
friendly chit-chat would
be nice. How can I liven
the vibe without putting
people o?

Wanna Scream My Love

from the Mountaintops
Dear WSMLFM,
You may think youve been
stealthy, but chances are
your co-workers have already
sniffed out your sitch. That
kiss you stole in the photocopy room? Dave saw that.
Your lingering eye contact
across the meeting table?
Everyone has noticed.
Still, before letting the
doves out of their crates,

Will Not Be Silenced

Your oce has eyes. Dont be surprised if your announcement of at-work amour leads to a whole lot of, Yeah, we
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check your companys policy

on post-5 p.m. frenching.
Some organizations require
intra-office lovebirds to prof-

fer written disclosure to

HR which you should obviously submit on perfumed
paper with heart-dotted is.

Rulebooks aside, divulging

your relationship to your
colleagues should not be a
big deal, but rather a chance

Dear WNBS,
This seems like a grass-isgreener conundrum. Those
who work in a cacophonous hive of cant-shut-up
colleagues would kill for an
hour of pin-drop calm. But

when typing fingers are the

only sound in your office, it
can get lonely.
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your output. Conversational
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energy, which could boost
the volume of work you
deliver. When introducing
some productive disruption,
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without annoying everyone
with the mundane and unsolicited minutia of your
personal life. You should
also target the talkers, aiming your thoughts at fellow
gabbers rather than broadcasting to the whole room.
Offices arent libraries, and
some intermittent discussion should not get you
shushed. Just be respectful:
Theres a difference between
friendly chatter and incessant blather.
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21

You say potato, I say Sloppy Joe

Guaranteed family hit.
Heres a spuddy twist
on the quick and easy
dinner classic

Ingredients

COOKING
TIME
25 MINUTES

6 medium baking potatoes

1 cup finely diced onion
1 1/2 tsp finely chopped garlic
1 tsp vegetable oil
12 oz extra-lean ground beef
4 oz spicy beef sausage, casings removed, diced
2 cups tomato pasta sauce
1 1/2 tsp dried basil
1 tsp chili powder

ROSE REISMAN
For more, visit
rosereisman.com or
follow her on twitter
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Sloppy Joes have been around

since the 1950s. Legend has
it that a cook named Joe at a
caf in Sioux City, Iowa, added
tomato sauce to his loose meat
sandwiches and the sloppy
joe was born!
Traditionally, the dish is prepared with ground beef, onions
and tomato sauce and is served
on a hamburger bun.
I stepped it up a notch by
serving it over a baked potato
and adding an array of garnishes to it.
I add a spicy diced sausage
to enhance the flavour of the
meat. If you have the time, you
can always bake the potatoes at
450 F for about 45 minutes or
just until tender for a crispier

2 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese

2 tbsp chopped fresh basil
#
Choice of grated cheddar, light
sour cream, chopped tomatoes and cilantro or basil

Nutritional information

This recipe serves six. ROSE REISMAN

skin.
Guaranteed to be a No. 1 favourite with kids and families!

Directions
1. In a medium

saucepan,
lightly coated with cooking

Per serving

 S 14.2 g

  435

 N 4.7 g

  56.6 g

  69 mg

 " 6.8 g

 N 273 mg

 G 29.3 g

spray, add the onion, garlic

and oil. Saut for 5 minutes
or until the onion begins to
brown. Add the beef and sausage and cook for 5 minutes or
until no longer pink, breaking
apart the meat with a wooden

spoon.

2. Add the tomato sauce, dried

basil and chili powder. Cover

and simmer for 15 minutes,
stirring occasionally. Garnish
with Parmesan cheese and

fresh basil.

3. Meanwhile, clean the bak-

ing potatoes, leaving the skin

on. Pierce the potatoes with a
fork throughout. Microwave

on High for 8-12 minutes, or

until tender. Cut in half lengthwise and divide sloppy Joe mixture over top. Add garnishes of
your choice.

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SPORTS

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Monday, November 24, 2014

Ticats laugh all the

way to the Banks
East Division nal.
Punt returner scores
pair of TDs as Hamilton
beats Montreal to get
into Grey Cup game
Brandon Banks and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats made the
Montreal Alouettes eat their
words Sunday.
Banks scored a playofftying two punt return TDs
to lead Hamilton back to the
Grey Cup with a 40-24 East
Division final win over the
Montreal Alouettes. Banks
had five punt returns for a
playoff-record 226 yards and
had another 78-yard TD return negated by a penalty.
The victory was especially
gratifying for Banks and the
Ticats, who remained silent
last week after Montreal players Duron Carter, Bear Woods
and S.J. Green all boldly predicted their team would win.
The assurances came despite
the Alouettes losing 29-15
here Nov. 8 that earned Hamilton first in the East and
home field for the division
final.
Banks was a multi-threat,
adding three carries for 35
yards and four catches for 33
yards. He finished with 294
total yards and played a major role in making Montreal
choke on its words.
Of course, we won,
Banks said. They guaranteed
a win, didnt they so (they)
can eat those words.
It is what it is.
Defensive back Brandon

The Tiger-Cats Brandon Banks slips a tackle en route to scoring one of his two punt-return touchdowns against the
Alouettes during the East Division nal on Sunday in Hamilton. GARY YOKOYAMA/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
East Division nal

40 24
Tiger-Cats

Alouettes

Stewart, who was also centred out by Green last week,

relished having the last laugh
but said Green was gracious
in defeat.
He came up to me after
the game and said, Good

game; go win it in B.C.,

Stewart said. Theres always
respect, I mean hes a great
receiver ... but were going to
B.C. and theyre not.
Thats all that matters.
Banks 88-yard return at
10:55 of the fourth quarter
was nothing short of amazing.
The five-foot-seven, 153pound speedster whose
nickname is Speedy was
completely surrounded by
Montreal defenders after corralling Sean Whytes boot but
somehow found a seam, then
sprinted along the sidelines

to put Hamilton ahead 37-24.

He did a better job than
our cover team, Montreal
head coach Tom Higgins
said. I think we might have
missed 13 tackles on one
play, probably a guy had two
shots at him.
Hamiltons Kent Austin
is off to his third straight
Grey Cup game as a CFL head
coach. He won the 2007 contest in his rookie season on
the sidelines with Saskatchewan. He left for the NCAA
ranks after that season before
returning north to Hamilton
last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS

West Division nal

Stamps punch
ticket to Grey Cup
Calgary can cap a stellar
season with a Grey Cup,
after beating the Edmonton Eskimos 43-18 in Sundays West Division final.
The Stampeders take
on the Hamilton TigerCats in the CFLs championship game Sunday in
Vancouver.
Calgary quarterback
Bo Levi Mitchell threw a
pair of touchdown strikes
to Eric Rogers, completed
scoring passes to Marquay
McDaniel and Jon Cornish
and ran the ball in for a
major of his own.
Cornish scored his
second major of the game
on a two-yard run late
in the fourth quarter.
The CFLs leading rusher
totalled 54 yards on 14
carries, but made his biggest impact on the game
as a receiver. Cornish
totalled 120 yards on four
catches and one them for
a touchdown.
Mitchell, a 24-year-old
Texan, won his first career
playoff start, throwing
for 336 yards and four
touchdowns without an
interception.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

The Stampeders Jon Cornish

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23

Is Floyd ready to go mano

a mano with Manny yet?
Boxing. Rumbles of
dream ght return after
Filipinos convincing win
over Algieri in China

Packers raid Vikings at home

Green Bay running back Eddie Lacy breaks through a tackle from the Vikings
Harrison Smith during the Packers 24-21 win over Minnesota
on Sunday. Scan the image with your Metro News app for a
roundup of NFL action. HANNAH FOSLIEN/GETTY IMAGES
NHL

Leafs left to replace

blue-liner Polak
Roman Polak is out with
a left foot injury likely for
a while, according to the
Toronto Maple Leafs.
Replacing him wont be
easy.
Polak was to have an
MRI on his left foot Sunday,
and while there were no
updates, its possible he
suffered either a bad sprain
or a bone fracture.
He was second to Dion
Phaneuf in ice time among
Leafs blue-liners, first
among NHL defenders in
hits and top five in blocked
shots.
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

MLS playos

Sarvas gives L.A.

rst-leg victory
over Seattle
Marcelo Sarvas scored
in the 52nd minute, and
the LA Galaxy opened
the Western Conference
championship with a 1-0
victory over the Seattle
Sounders on Sunday in
Carson, Calif.
In Harrison, N.J.,
Jermaine Jones finished a
counter-attack in the 85th
minute with a tap-in and
gave the New England
Revolution a 2-1 victory
Sunday in the first leg of
the Eastern Conference
finals. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Manny Pacquiao is done taking the high road, tired of pretending he doesnt care.
At long last he has Floyd
Mayweather Jr. right where he
wants him. And this time hes
not about to let him slip away
without a fight.
I think its time to say
something, Pacquiao said
Sunday after dispatching Chris
Algieri in convincing fashion in
Macau. The fans deserve that
fight. Its time to make that
fight happen.
Whether it actually happens, of course, depends on
Mayweather agreeing to sign
on the bottom line. And for the
better part of five years now,
Mayweather has given one
excuse after another when it
comes to making the one fight
boxing fans really want.
He thought Pacquiao might
be on steroids, and refused to
Quoted

Answer the telephone,

its as simple as that.
Fight promoter Bob Arum when asked
what it would take to nally get a PacquiaoMayweather showdown.

Manny Pacquiao battered Chris Algieri around the ring on Sunday in Macau, on his way to a decision win in a lopsided
welterweight title ght. Two ringside judges scored the bout 119-103 while the third had it 120-102. CHRIS HYDE/GETTY IMAGES

deal with his promoter. When

Pacquiao got knocked out by
Juan Manuel Marquez, Mayweather said it wasnt worth
his time to even mention his
name.
But now Mayweather may
be boxed into a corner for a
number of reasons and from a
number of angles. The pressure
will be on to make the fight
sometime in the first half of
next year or forever draw the
wrath of the fans who contribute to his massive paycheques.

And suddenly the prospect

of boxings richest fight ever
doesnt seem like such a farfetched fantasy after all.
If boxing is to be considered
a major sport then the fight has
to happen. The nonsense needs
to cease. There are no excuses
anymore, promoter Bob Arum
said.
Mayweather opened the
door ever so slightly to the fight
after his win over Marcos Maidana in September, saying that
he might be open to the possi-

bility of a fight.
If the Pacquiao fight happens, it happens, Mayweather
said. You can ask the same
questions and get the same answers. I call my own shots.
A number of obstacles remain to actually making a
fight, though, not least is Mayweathers willingness to risk
his unblemished mark near
the end of his career. There are
issues with promoters, TV contracts, purse splits and even legacies. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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You need to be careful as the
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Feb. 20 - March 20
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